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john. >> george howell live in austin. a lot of people talking about it there and all over the country. so lance armstrong says he has spoken to one of the people he called a liar. one of the people he attacked. 16 years ago betsy andreu and her then fiance, while armstrong was fighting cancer, said they heard armstrong rattle off to his doctor a host of drugs including human growth hormone. >> did you deny what betsy andreu said in the hospital is a lie? >> yes. >> and betsy says that it ruined her brother's cycling career for telling the truth -- i think it was her fiance's cycling career. this is a guy who lied for years, cheated for years, attacked for years, and last night in one 90-minute interview, he says, yeah, i lied, i cheated, i'm really sorry. so surreal. felt like outer space to me. >> didn't feel like he was flip. i feel like he repeatedly admitted what he did was wrong. i didn't have that sense of him being flip ant aboant about it. he said i'm not sure this is an acceptable answer, but that's like saying w
john. >> george howell live in austin. a lot of people talking about it there and all over the country. so lance armstrong says he has spoken to one of the people he called a liar. one of the people he attacked. 16 years ago betsy andreu and her then fiance, while armstrong was fighting cancer, said they heard armstrong rattle off to his doctor a host of drugs including human growth hormone. >> did you deny what betsy andreu said in the hospital is a lie? >> yes. >> and...
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. >> george howell is live in austin. you've covered lance armstrong from the early days in his cycling career. how are people reacting there in his hometown? >> reporter: it is a mixed bag. i was a reporter here in austin long before this bike shop existed that armstrong co-owns here in austin. i even grew up here. is this my hometown, too. and i remember watching lance armstrong come along, watching him win big once, twice, three times and so on. he not only inspired people as an athlete, but also a cancer survivor. he became a real symbol for the city of austin, real source of pride. but now you can't help but feel let down. and that's what you hear on the streets of austin. take a listen. >> i actually was not surprised. i had lost a lot of respect for him a years ago because i had a feeling that there was some truth to the rumors. >> reporter: some people are disappointed certainly but haven't lost sight of the good things that he's done in his career, cancer charities like livestrong, people saying there will should
. >> george howell is live in austin. you've covered lance armstrong from the early days in his cycling career. how are people reacting there in his hometown? >> reporter: it is a mixed bag. i was a reporter here in austin long before this bike shop existed that armstrong co-owns here in austin. i even grew up here. is this my hometown, too. and i remember watching lance armstrong come along, watching him win big once, twice, three times and so on. he not only inspired people as an...
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george howell for us this morning. thank you, george, appreciate it. so the question is do you believe manti te'o? was it catfishing? dawn ritchie says it's pretty easy to be duped by something like this. she's a private investigator. the president of allstate investigation and lots of her investigations are, i would imagine, involve catfishing. >> yeah, we get calls every day about people who meet people online, have relationships and then it obviously turns sour because a lot of them really do. >> so you believe manti te'o. >> oh, without a doubt. i think that there's -- i think that there's a lot more blame and background to research on tuiasosopo. >> tuiasosopo. >> yeah, you got it. i think that's more -- they should really investigate more on that because he's actually done it a few times as has been reported. >> i thought it was so interesting when anderson was interviewing diane o'meara, who is the -- lennay when she said for five years tuiasosopo was trolling her facebook and stealing those images to create this person. is that what you've seen
george howell for us this morning. thank you, george, appreciate it. so the question is do you believe manti te'o? was it catfishing? dawn ritchie says it's pretty easy to be duped by something like this. she's a private investigator. the president of allstate investigation and lots of her investigations are, i would imagine, involve catfishing. >> yeah, we get calls every day about people who meet people online, have relationships and then it obviously turns sour because a lot of them...
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. >> our george howell has been all over this story. he's live from the cnn center with more now, george. so he speaks. >> john he says it was really the question now, was he really duped? he claims he had nothing to do with this internet hoax. we'll hear more about manti te'o's interview with katie couric later today and get more insight into these bizarre connections. he believed that his online girlfriend who he never met died of cancer in september. two days before he attended the heisman trophy ceremony he got a call saying she was alive and faced with the media on the heisman day he kept talking about her as if she was alive. here's what he told katie. >> you stuck to the script and you knew something was amiss, manti. >> correct. >> why? >> well, if anybody puts themselves in my situation. katie, put yourself in my situation. this girl who i committed to died on september 12th. now i get a phone call on september 6th saying she's alive and i'm going to be put on national tv two days later and they asked me the same question. what
. >> our george howell has been all over this story. he's live from the cnn center with more now, george. so he speaks. >> john he says it was really the question now, was he really duped? he claims he had nothing to do with this internet hoax. we'll hear more about manti te'o's interview with katie couric later today and get more insight into these bizarre connections. he believed that his online girlfriend who he never met died of cancer in september. two days before he attended...
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george howell, thank you very much. appreciate it. >>> and would you say cheating is now commonplace? whether it's in sports, on wall street, in schools and beyond. today at 3:00 eastern, brook baldwin examines why we cheat, the psychology and science behind it. that's at 3:00 p.m. today eastern. >> we talked about it a lot. i say this is a problem within the culture of sports, and they need to change it in order for the players not to feel like this is something they have to do in order to be competitive. >> i agree with that. but i also think you cannot exonerate or allow individuals to get away with it. >> consequences. >> if you are traveling today, playing by the rules or cheating, check your flight because there's a huge swath of moistu moisture. >> no cheating in weather. no cheating in weather at all. we're looking at rain in most areas, look what's happening. we have some snow through parts of mississippi. it's coming down in some locations. really for the south, some locations could pick up two to four inches
george howell, thank you very much. appreciate it. >>> and would you say cheating is now commonplace? whether it's in sports, on wall street, in schools and beyond. today at 3:00 eastern, brook baldwin examines why we cheat, the psychology and science behind it. that's at 3:00 p.m. today eastern. >> we talked about it a lot. i say this is a problem within the culture of sports, and they need to change it in order for the players not to feel like this is something they have to do...
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george howell thank you very much. >>> one baltimore raven wants to use the media frenzy surrounding the super bowl to send a message about gay rights and bullying? should the super bowl be politicized? facebook.com/carolcnn. >>> now is your chance to talk back on one of the stories for the day. the question for you this morning, should the super bowl be politicized? the super bowl. it's one of the few events that capture the nation's undivided attention. last year some 111 million people watched, that's roughly a third of the population. one of this year's super bowl players, brendan ayanbadejo of the ravens wants to seize the media frenzy to push for gay equality, an issue he's been passionate about for years. >> for me personally i see it as a human rights issue, it's not gay rights, it's equal rights, just human rights, whether it's suffrage or go back to slavery or segregation, gay rights, it's all the same thing to me. i've gotten a lot of scrutiny. i'm officially known as the ambassador, the gay ambassador. >> he told "the new york times" if the ravens win the super bowl, his
george howell thank you very much. >>> one baltimore raven wants to use the media frenzy surrounding the super bowl to send a message about gay rights and bullying? should the super bowl be politicized? facebook.com/carolcnn. >>> now is your chance to talk back on one of the stories for the day. the question for you this morning, should the super bowl be politicized? the super bowl. it's one of the few events that capture the nation's undivided attention. last year some 111...
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. >> george howell joins us now. he's been following this story, the ins and outs from the beginning. big question everyone is asking, george. did it help or hurt? >> john, look. you know, mixed reactions, there are some people who are sympathetic for what they heard the other night. others, not so much. but te'o all along, he insists that he really believed that his girlfriend was real. then when he realized he was duped, he admitted he doesn't know what to say about that. notre dame star linebacker manti te'o denied any involvement in the online hoax of a girlfriend never met, a woman we know now never existed. >> either you are the most naive person on the planet or this is the saddest story ever written. it goes on and on and on, this web of lies. >> i thought how could this all happen to one person? i had my doubts. >> te'o got a phone call in september, telling him his girlfriend dies of cancer. then in december, before the heisman trophy ceremony, another phone call saying she was alive. but te'o didn't change
. >> george howell joins us now. he's been following this story, the ins and outs from the beginning. big question everyone is asking, george. did it help or hurt? >> john, look. you know, mixed reactions, there are some people who are sympathetic for what they heard the other night. others, not so much. but te'o all along, he insists that he really believed that his girlfriend was real. then when he realized he was duped, he admitted he doesn't know what to say about that. notre...
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here is cnn's george howell. >> reporter: manti te'o involved any involvement in the hoax about the online girlfriend he never met, a woman we now know never existed. >> either you're the most naive person on the planet, or this is the saddest story i think ever written. it goes on and on and on. >> yeah. i thought that. >> this web of lies. >> and i thought this is -- how could all this happen to one person? and i had my -- i had my doubts. >> te'o says he got a phone call in september, telling him his girlfriend died of cancer. then in december, before the heisman trophy ceremony, another phone call saying she was alive. but te'o didn't change his story. >> at the heisman trophy ceremony, you were interviewed and repeated the story that your girlfriend had, in fact, died of cancer. that's a lie. why would you say that? >> at the time i didn't know. let's be honest with you. i did not know. >> reporter: couric asked for proof of an intimate relationship. and te'o provided phone records, even voice mail. >> i love you and i will talk to you tomorrow. i love you so much. >> have you no idea
here is cnn's george howell. >> reporter: manti te'o involved any involvement in the hoax about the online girlfriend he never met, a woman we now know never existed. >> either you're the most naive person on the planet, or this is the saddest story i think ever written. it goes on and on and on. >> yeah. i thought that. >> this web of lies. >> and i thought this is -- how could all this happen to one person? and i had my -- i had my doubts. >> te'o says he...